[Python-ideas] New PEP proposal -- Pathlib Module Should Contain All File Operations

[Jason Maldonis]

>
> Surely shutil is a *high* level modules.
> os is a low level module that shutil builds on.
> Adding the missing pieces to shutil would make it the place to go to do
> file operations.
> Pity its not called filelib.
>

Gotcha, thank you! shutil being a high level library complicates things...
So we have two "high-level" libraries (pathlib and shutil) and both of them
provide different pieces of useful functionality. Maybe I am starting to
see why this is complicated. Thanks for reading my above reply and taking
the time to respond.
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